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Auction History Result 3b0058 ANNA CHRISTIE pressbook 1930 Greta Garbo in her first sound movie, George Marion, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/25/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 17 1/2" x 21" [44 x 53 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) Anna Christie, the 1930 Clarence Brown (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) romantic family relationship melodrama ("A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All-Talking Picture"; "Adapted by Frances Marion from Eugene O'Neill's play 'Anna Christie'"; about a 20 year old woman who was abandoned by her father when she was 5; he is a rough sailor, and she comes to live with him, and she can't bear to tell him that she spent the last 2 years as a prostitute; she falls in love with a young sailor who doesn't know about her past either, and she finally decides that she must tell both her father and the man she loves the truth) starring Greta Garbo (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Anna Christie; "Her first talking picture!"; "Her greatest dramatic triumph!"), Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, James T. Mack, and William Russell. Note that this was Garbo's first sound movie, and it was advertised with the tagline "Garbo talks!" Note that this was a remake of the 1923 silent movie starring Blanche Sweet. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook! Note that MGM, being the foremost studio of the 1930s felt they did not need to create wonderful posters for their movies, because they had so many top stars, so often their 1930s posters have simple artwork against a white background with a duotone photo of the top stars! However, they knew that they needed theater owners to book their movies, so they spent quite a bit more money on their pressbooks, often making them close to window card size, with an exact color recreation of the window card image on the cover of the pressbook, and the posters on the back cover in full color, and often a full-color sample herald, "tipped in" to the inside of one of the covers! However, they economized on the interior on these large pressbooks and used newsprint for the interior pages, which in almost every case has aged greatly and is fragile, if not brittle (see below for the exact condition of this pressbook). Note that in December 2021, we were consigned a truly remarkable collection of pressbooks (the first 37 were auctioned in our December Major Auction, and the most expensive one sold for $17,500!). In our regular auctions since, we have auctioned hundreds more from this collection. Now we continue to auction more of these pressbooks, which is absolutely the finest collection of pressbooks we have ever been consigned. In this set of auctions, most of the ones we are auctioning are larger pressbooks, mostly 11" x 15" or larger. Some of them were folded at one time, but they were stored unfolded for many years, so we left them unfolded, and unless the new owner requests otherwise, we will send them unfolded, because re-folding them would likely lessen the condition. Many of these are ones we have either never auctioned before or only once auctioned before, sometimes many years ago. These were collected decades ago, which was the only time that many of these could be found, and after these auctions are over it may be years (or decades!) before some of these are offered again. They ARE that rare! Note that pressbooks from the 1930s are almost never found in great condition, and some of them (especially those printed during World War II, including all the MGM ones from that time) are printed on newsprint, and are hard to find in even lesser condition. We have several images from each pressbook. We have given each an overall grade, and ask that you look at our images to get a good sense of the condition of that pressbook, because, since they have many pages, it would take forever to describe their condition in detail. However, EVERY one of these pressbooks is complete and uncut! Condition: poor to fair, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. However, the interiors of MGM pressbooks from this period were printed on a newsprint that was exactly like what was used in newspapers at that time, and it almost always ages terribly, resulting in incredibly brittle insides. The color covers were printed on a better paper, but they tend to chip around the edges. In this particular pressbook, the pages are extremely fragile, and it is darkening and separating on the folds, and there are tiny tears around the edges and on the folds. Someone put tape along parts of the folds and borders, which has darkened and has made the pressbook even more fragile. Obviously, one would prefer to find an example of this in better condition, but we don't know that one exists anywhere! Learn More about condition grades 
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